I can't give a Professor love!

You’re not supposed to dislike your own child. You were supposed to like them no matter what, even if they were not what you wanted.

Which only goes to show that the best of us must sometimes eat our words,' Dumbledore went on, smiling.

I've been writing since I was six. It is a compulsion, so I can't really say where the desire came from; I've always had it. My breakthrough with the first book came through persistence, because a lot of publishers turned it down!

Here lies Dobby, a free elf.

I think writing about the time in Hermione’s life that I write about – growing from childhood into womanhood, literally, I think it brought back to me how very difficult it is.So much is expected of you as you become a woman, and often you are asked to sacrifice parts of you in becoming a girl, I would say. Hermione doesn’t.

Well, [bad] times like that bring out the best in some people and the worst in others.